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>	cole is Free Software, which means is distributed under a license that protect your freedom. cole distribution license is compatible with the <A
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>	cole is distributed under the terms of the <A
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>			All the code statically or dinamically linked against cole must be distributed under the terms of a license compatible with GPL.
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>			If you change the cole source code and you want to distribute a compiled version, you must release the changed cole source code too.
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